Dinner Quotes - Page 37

• I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Chinese, Nine

  "Brooke Shields on Beauty, Marriage, And Self-Esteem". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 01, 2001.

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• I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lost Youth, Ideas

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

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• "Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.164

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• The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

  Hollis Stacy

  Party, America, People

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• My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

  Bo Sanchez

  Parent, Tables, Filipino

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• As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

  Brian Molko

  Beautiful, Morning, Party

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• Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

  Mira Grant

  Walking Dead, Tables, Polite

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Children, Want, Four

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

  Michael Caine

  Coffee, Want, Minutes

  "'Dark Knight Rises' Michael Caine: 'Alfred is more intense'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Writing, Feels, Deserve

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• ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

  George Eliot

  Furniture, World, Absence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2255, Delphi Classics

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• I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Writing, Ingredients

  Source: productivemag.com

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• Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of group-think than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter, the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

  David Weigel

  Smart, Rewards, Happy Hour

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 2, 2013.

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• I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Talking, Years

  "Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Lea Michele NEW YEAR'S EVE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Husband, Farewell, Europe

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• All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morning, Two, Yesterday

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00

  Dave Barry

  God, Children, Turkeys

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• That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Party, Meat

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.438, Race Point Pub

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• The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Madness, Planes

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• When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

  Summer Sanders

  Yummy, People, House

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• Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Light, Eggs, Important

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• Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

  George Jean Nathan

  Wine, Theater

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• Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Dirty, Boys

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.150, Vintage

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• What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner - the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much lorger duration.

  Alexis Soyer

  Nice, Salad, Green

  Alexis Soyer (1855). “A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy”, p.155

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